Imagine this: You are in the pre-launch tinkering stages of an amateur fan site for your favorite band. You reach out to the band's drummer via his web site contact form, for permission to use some of his images. Next thing you know, Terry Sullivan joins your site as… Continue

Continuing my accidental blogging theme of "twos", here are two signed press photos with a twist: Both are signed in ballpoint pen -- probably the same pen -- by the gentlemen of the band, and only one of them is signed by Annie in a felt tip pen. That probably means her autograph was added at a later time.

Two recently-acquired 1970s Annie Haslam press photos. One is amazing in every way (including bare feet!), the other one a dull and lifeless pose, korny backdrop, and poor focus. What were they thinking...

It's an impressive 20-page book and an interesting read, but a big surprise to me was the low technical quality of some of the photographs -- except for cover, all black-and-white (which is fine!) but many with with poor contrast and some with massive quantities of dust particles visible from dirty negatives; sloppy workmanship.

The photo geek in me couldn't stand it so I did some Photoshop cleanup on the pages… Continue